About This Song
About "T.B. Blues (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 7)" by Lead Belly
A haunting, slide-driven blues about tuberculosis, recorded for the Library of Congress in 1941. Lead Belly transforms illness into metaphor: the 'T.B. Blues' is a slow march of mortality, its calm, repetitive guitar figure at odds with the desperate, coughing ghost at the song's heart.